Police Are the Mass Killers We Should Be Worried About

Benjamin Bac Sierra speaks at a podium alongside other Latino and Black activists at a San Francisco rally against police violence, March 2016. Photo by Pax Ahimsa Gethen, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Two months into the year 2023, mass shootings continue to be everyday occurrences in the United States, with no end in sight. Every one of these events is a tragedy. But an even bigger tragedy, to my mind, is that hundreds of legal state executions are happening every year in our homes and streets. The executioners are the police, and people of color are their primary victims.